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Location

King's Lynn, Norfolk | United Kingdom

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Job description

To provide a comprehensive Haematology Service in West Norfolk and Wisbech for the Trust. This is a replacement Consultant Haematology Post and it is expected that the new consultant will carry the department into the future. The appointee will join the current Consultant Haematologists Dr Lisa Cooke (3 days), and Dr Martin Lewis (4 days), to provide a comprehensive laboratory and clinical haematology service. The new Consultant will work at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn. The successful candidate will be encouraged to develop a chosen specialist interest within haematology by spending a day a week at Cambridge Univeristy Hopsitals NHS Foundation Trust and thus make an individual contribution to haematology services at King’s Lynn.

The appointed consultant would be expected to contribute to the on-going service improvement programme developing:
• Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT)
• Cost Improvement programme (CIP)
• Implementing evidence based new ways of working when necessary

With over 4,000 staff (known as TeamQEH), the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn is one of the biggest employers in West Norfolk, supporting the health and wellbeing of the local community. QEH has 518 beds, 18 wards, a budget of circa £220m and provides a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to those who live in the three counties of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.

TeamQEH is proud to be an inclusive employer, with many active staff networks. We have also been recognised as an exemplar employer by BAPIO (British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin) and offer outstanding health and wellbeing initiatives to support our staff and to implement our learning from the pandemic.

We are exceptionally proud to have recently moved out of special measures and see this as a testament to the determination of our trust wide teams to put our patients first and recognise the hard work and dedication of all our staff.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information about this opportunity.

We look forward to hearing from you.

This advert closes on Thursday 28 Mar 2024

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